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1) Three Things to

Respect Old age, Religion and Law.
Love Purity, Honesty and Hard work.
Admire Beauty, Intellect and Character.
Cultivate Courage, Cheerfulness and Contentment.
Maintain Promise, Friendship and Affection.
Avoid Smoking, Drinking and Gambling.
Control Tongue, Temper and Temptation.
Watch Speech, Behavior and Action.
Prevent Laziness, Falsehood and Slang.
Remember Mother, Father and Teacher.

2) When Life is

A Challenge Meet it.
A Tragedy Face it.
A Sorrow Overcome it.
A J ourney Complete it.
An Adventure Dare it.
A Struggle Accept it.
A Duty Perform it.
An Opportunity Utilize it.
A Dream Realize it.
A Promise Fulfill it.
A Game Play it.
A Bliss Taste it.
A Song Sing it.
A Mystery Unfold it.
A Beauty Worship it.
A Milestone Keep it in view.

3) May you have enough

Sorrow To keep you human.
Trials To keep you strong.
Happiness To keep you sweet.
Hope To keep you happy.
Failure To keep you humble.
Success To keep you respect.
Friends To keep you comfort.
Wealth To keep you needs.
Enthusiasm To look forward.
Faith To banish depression.
Determination To make each day better than the previous day.

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4) Those Unforgettable words

You cannot bring about prosperity
By discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak
By crippling the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner
By crippling the wage-payer.
You cannot help the poor
By destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security
On borrowed money.
You cannot escape trouble
By spending more than you earn.
You cannot built character and courage
By taking away mans initiative and independence.
You cannot help them permanently
By doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
----- Abraham Lincoln.

5) A personal mission statement

Succeed at home first.
Seek and merit divine help.
Never compromise with honesty.
Remember the people involved.
Hear both sides before judging.
Obtain counsel of others.
Defend those who are absent.
Be sincere yet decisive.
Develop one new proficiency a year.
Plan tomorrows work today.
Hustle while you wait.
Maintain a positive attitude.
Keep a sense of humor.
Be orderly in person and in work.
Do not fear mistakes fear only the absence of creative, constructive and
corrective responses to those mistakes.
Facilitate the success of subordinates.
Listen twice as much as you speak.
Concentrate all abilities and efforts on the task at hand, not worrying about the
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6) Rules of Living
Never put off till tomorrow
When you can do today.
Never trouble another for
What you can do yourself.
Never spend money i.e., your money
Before you have it.
Never buy what you do not want
Because it is cheap.
Pride costs us more than
Hunger, thirst and cold.
We seldom repent having
Eaten too little.
Nothing is troublesome
That we do willingly.

7) If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you dont.
If youd like to win, but think you cant
Its almost a clinch you wont.
Lifes battles dont always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
---- Anonymous.


8) Go to work and smile

If you are poor --- work.
If you are rich --- continue to work.
If you are happy --- keep right on working.
If disappointments come --- work.
If sorrow overwhelms you
and loved ones seem not true --- work.
If health is threatened --- work.
When faith fallens and reason fails --- just work.
When dreams are shattered and
hope seems dead --- work.
Whatever happens or matters --- work.
Work is the greatest material remedy available.
Work will cure both mental and physical afflictions.




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9) Salutation to the dawn

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today well lived makes every
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
---- Kalidasa.

10) Before you

Speak --- Listen
Write --- Think
Spend --- Earn
Invest --- Investigate
Criticize --- Wait
Pray --- Forgive
Quit --- Try
Retire --- Save
Die --- Give

11) A little knowledge is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;
And drinking largely sobers us again.
---- Pope.
12) Hard and steep is the path of progress.

13) Follow nothing blindly. ---- Socrates.

14) Fools rush in where angels fear to trade.

15) Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
---- Thomas Alva Edison.



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16) Success is sweetest when won.
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17) Health is wealth.

18) Time and tide wait for no man.

19) Art is long and life is short.

20) No gains, without pains.

21) Learn more than you earn.

22) Add life to your years and not years to life.

23) Do the best, leave the rest.

24) You should eat to live and not live to eat.

25) Not failure, but low aim is crime.
---- James Russell Powell.
26) Nature has given man one tongue and two ears that we may hear twice as much as
we speak. ---- Epictetus.

27) The boy who is going to make a great man, or is going to count in any way in
after life, must make up his mind not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles,
but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ---- Theodere Roosevelt.

28) Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.
---- Lord Chesterfield.

29) When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or
even the third rank. ---- Cicero.

30) Keep cool, anger is not an argument. ---- Daniel Webster.

31) Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you.

32) Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ---- Elbert Hubban.

33) Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
---- Jawaharlal Nehru.

34) Give the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.


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35) Aim at the sun, you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if
aimed at an object on a level with your self. ---- John Harver.
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36) Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
---- Horace.

37) Saturate your mind with the idea of success.

38) The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

39) Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect.
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

40) Chance favors the prepared mind. ---- Louis Pasteur.

41) Good luck is a lazy mans estimate of a workers success. ---- Anonymous.

42) A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ---- A.Garfield.

43) Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people dont recognize
them. ---- Ann Handers.

44) The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

45) An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity,
A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ---- Sir Winston Churchill.

46) There is only one success, to spend your life in your own way.
---- Christopher Morley.

47) To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. ---- William Shakespeare.

48) Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ---- Benjamin Franklin.

49) The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the
ambitious will power to develop themselves. ---- Herbert.N.Cassion.

50) Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
---- Christopher Quill.

51) If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

52) Hitch your wagon to star. ---- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

53) Do you love your life?
If so dont waste your time as it is important primary raw material for your life
engine. ---- Franklin.


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54) It is not enough to have a good idea you need to take action.
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55) Imagination is more important than knowledge. ---- Albert Einstein.

56) We live in deeds and not in years.
We live in thoughts and not breaths.
We live in feelings and not figures on the dial.

57) When the mind becomes purified like a mirror, knowledge is revealed in it.
Care should therefore be taken to purify the mind. ---- Adi Shankaracharya.

58) Tomorrow is too late, live today.

59) An idle brain is devils workshop.

60) Patience is the leading characteristics of great minds.

61) Success is not measured by the heights attained but by the obstacles overcome.

62) Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles but to
overcome them. ---- Theodore Roosevelt.

63) Happiness depends on what you can give not on what you can get.
---- M.K.Gandhi.

64) All is perishable in the world. Power and self will disappear. But the virtue of a
great name will live forever. ---- Raja Pratap Singh.

65) Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in
knowing what to do next. ---- Herbert Hoever.

66) The confession of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

67) Beauty

A short-lived tyranny ---- Socrates.
A privilege of nature ---- Plato.
A silent cheat ---- Theophrastus.
A delightful prejudice ---- Theocitus.
A solitary kingdom ---- Carneades.
Glorious gift of nature ---- Homer.
It was better than all the letters
of recommendation in the world. ---- Aristotle.

68) There is only one corner in the whole of the universe you can be certain of
improving and that is your own self. ---- Aldons Huxley.


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69) He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.
----Arabian Proverb.

70) Brains well prepared are the monuments where human knowledge is most surely
engraved.

71) Those who command themselves can command others.

72) Reading will stimulate and enrich (y)our work. It will retrieve and divert our
mind, what is not least important; it will follow imagination with higher ideals
than we are apt to get in every day life.

73) Be honest and hardworking. Hard work is more than a prayer.

74) The first and simplest emotion, which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

75) Self trust is the first secret of success. ---- Emerson.

76) Thinking well is wise. Planning well wiser. Doing well wisest and best of all.
---- Persian proverb.

77) All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

78) Work like a master, not like a slave.

79) Obedience is the mother of success and the wife of safety.

80) The great pleasure of life is doing what people say you cannot do.

81) Great men while they undertake to do a great deed are never upset.

82) Practice makes a man perfect.

83) Act in your life as if you will live forever and live your life as if you will die
tomorrow.

84) The more we learn; the more we learn how much there is to be learned.

85) Science is organized knowledge.

86) Mans value is in the few things he creates and not in many things he collects
amasses.

87) Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.
---- Benjamin Franklin.

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88) People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ---- Gilbert K.Chestaton.

89) One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
---- John Stinart Mill.

90) The most difficult thing to open is a closed mind.

91) He who has faith has all and he who lacks faith lacks all.

92) A man is but a product of thoughts; what he thinks that he becomes.
---- M.K.Gandhi.
93) The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.
The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity
and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devotee 100%
---- Andrew Carnegie.

94) Conscience is Gods presence in man.

95) It is faith in the Lord that works wonders for faith is life and doubt is death.
---- Sri Ramakrishna.

96) Science without Religion is lame and
Religion without Science is blind. ---- Albert Einstein.

97) This world is a Great Book of which they who never stir from home read only a
page. ---- Augustine.

98) It take less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

99) Hatred stirs up strife but love covers all offences.

100) Never, never, never lose hope. ---- Sri Gurudev.

101) A student acquires quarter of his knowledge from his teacher, another quarter
from his intelligence, the third quarter from his co-students. The last quarter in
course of time from experience. ---- Mahabharatham.

102) Smile, that makes all to work for a while.

103) Man is not a circle with a center, but he is an ellipse with two foci, fact is one
and ideas on the other. ---- Victor Hugo.

104) We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is
increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on ones own
feet. ---- Swami Vivekananda.

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105) Confidence means ease, efficiency, right thinking, right attitude, accuracy and
success.
Lack of confidence is awkwardness, error, negative thinking, and an attitude of
self-defeat.

106) Knowledge finds the path, wisdom lights it.

107) A single rose can be my garden.

108) Take time to live because the world has so much to give.

109) Religion is above reason, supernatural.

110) Faith is not belief; it is the grasp on the ultimate an illumination.

111) All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind.

112) Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

113) Eschew evil and do good; seek peace and ensure it.

114) Death does not destroy a man.

115) No evil can come from a perfect man.

116) A man of courage is also full of faith.

117) There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

118) We learn by mistakes and profit by failures.

119) He who likes to generalize generally lies.

120) Magnified promises are always to be suspected.

121) Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to
diminishing returns.

122) Money breeds insensitiveness.

123) Days and months are passing away. Summer and winter are passing away. Still
man thinks that he will live forever and is building all sorts of airy castles.

124) Whoever is proud, vain and egoistic cannot be moral; he is always an evildoer.

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125) Three are the gates of this hell leading to the ruin of the soul lust, wrath and
greed. Therefore let man renounce these three.

126) The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

127) Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

128) A bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses.

129) Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in the tails.

130) Will of power is the worth of pleasure.

131) It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by
himself.

132) Magnanimity in politics is seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and
little minds go ill together.

133) Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

134) To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up that,
which is planted.

135) Business, you know may bring money but friendship hardly ever does.

136) It is better to lit one candle than to curse the darkness.

137) The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

138) Nostalgia is recalling the fun without relieving the pain.

139) A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in expressing his opinion.

140) Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.

141) He who can conceal his joys is greater than who can hide his griefs.

142) A man of courage is also full of faith.

143) The best eraser in the world is a good night sleep.

144) Rumor is one thing that gets thicker as you spread it.


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145) Luck is an opportunity seized.
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146) The worst that can happen to a genius is to be understood.

147) All men are born equal but the tough job is to outgrow it.

148) Intuition - Intelligence breaking the speed limit.

149) It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

150) It is easy to see the faults of others but no so easy to see ones own faults.

151) Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery of ourselves.

152) The wages of sin are unreported.

153) If you cannot think of the future you cannot have one.

154) Work kills no one; but worry kills multitudes. ---- Emerson.

155) Every thought what genius and piety throw into the world; alters the world.
---- Emerson.

156) Everything is transitory.

157) I live not in myself, but become a portion that around me ---- Byron.

158) Even that which we now do well, must be done better tomorrow.
---- James.F.Bell.

159) The highest peak has not been climbed yet.

160) The mightiest rivers are not spanned.

161) Dont worry and feel faint hearted.

162) The chances have just begun, for the best jobs have not started.

163) Do not look to the future with awe.

164) Do not look to the past with remorse.

165) Life changes, Death erases, but memories live on.

166) The tomorrow that we experience will most certainly be built on the foundation
of a successful yesterday.

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167) The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the
place for the first time.

168) Penny wise; pound foolish.

169) There is no joy quite like the joy of giving of self and time and love, to those in
need of courage, comfort, cheer, for daily living, in lifes harsh battles in this
world of greed.

170) I believe the first test of a true great man in his humility.

171) A man is the faade of a temple where in all wisdom and good abide.

172) Character teaches over own head. The infallible index of true progress is found
in the love the man takes. Neither his age nor his breeding, nor company, nor
his books, nor actions, nor talents, nor all together can hider him being
differential to a higher spirit than his own.

173) Insist on yourself, never imitate that which can do best, none but his maker can
teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
Where is the master who have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who
could have instructed Franklin or Washington, or Bacon or Newton? Every
great man is a unique.

174) Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too
much.

175) He is happy who is active in accordance with complete virtue.

176) One imperfectness shows me another to make me frankly despise myself.

177) The world belong to the working class.

178) Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it to another not having it.

179) Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, and is its own proof.

180) Wisdom is song of the open road.

181) Great is wisdom, infinite is the value of wisdom, it cannot be exaggerated; it is
the highest achievement of man.

182) Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.

183) Carve your names on hearts, not on marbles.

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184) Blessed is he, who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness.

185) First deserve, then desire.

186) Haste makes waste.

187) All are not saints that go to church.

188) Prevention is better than cure.

189) Bare words buy no barley.

190) Faults are thick, when love is thin.

191) The lawmaker should not be a lawbreaker.

192) As a lamp does not burn without oil, so a man cannot live (as a human) without
God.

193) Study and digest good books in order to strengthen knowledge against odd evil
thoughts.

194) As the monkey sacrifices its life at the feet of the hunter, so does a man at the
feet of a beautiful woman.

195) Try to get absolute mastery over the sexual instinct.

196) It is wise to hold aloof from sex influences than to gain experience by a fall.

197) It is strange that no one has anything but praise for his own wife, be she good,
bad or indifferent.

198) One needs lot of grace to acknowledge others achievement.

199) Man is good, but men are bad.

200) Fearlessness is the first requisite for spirituality.

201) Conquer yourself and the whole world is yours.

202) It is easy to die for a cause; but it is very difficult to live for a cause.
---- Rev.Ayya.

203) Conversation is the workshop and laboratory of the student. ---- Emerson.


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204) The borrower is servant to the lender.
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205) Do not shed blood, shed hatred. ---- Indira Gandhi.

206) Choice in life is important as you choose a friend.

207) Pains of love be sweeter for than other pleasures are.

208) A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.

209) You will actually become what you constantly pose yourself to be.

210) Uninterrupted devotion is necessary to keep alive the fire of spirituality.

211) Happiness is in the life that we lead, and not in dreams. ---- Indira Gandhi.

212) Good is near truth but not yet truth.

213) In crisis, resolution
In defeat, defiance and
In victory, magnanimity. ---- Winston Churchill.

214) The proper study of mankind is human.

215) True love is steady and enduring merciless death cannot affect it.

216) Man may be faithless- but true love is everlasting.

217) One must work hard, how can one achieve anything without effort?

218) Adapt adequate mean for the end you seek to attain.

219) Love is higher than words, than yoga, than knowledge.

220) Be brave and be sincere.

221) We think our fathers fools; so wise we grow. Our wiser sons no doubt will think
us so. ---- Pope.

222) In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

223) Failures are the stepping-stones for success.

224) To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
---- Mark Twain.

225) There is always room at the top.

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226) We live in deeds and not in years.

227) Where there is a will, there is a way.

228) Honesty is the best policy.

229) Pen is mightier than sword.

230) Life is but an empty dream.

231) Love is a kind of nervous disorder.

232) Simple living and high thinking is the guiding principle of life.

233) Thoughts live, they travel so far and so take care of what you think.

234) Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man.

235) He who has faith has all and he who lacks it lacks all.

236) Greatness is free from pride.

237) Unselfishness is more paying, only people do not have the patience to practice it.

238) Great books create great soul that rules the world.

239) Blessed is he, who is pure in heart for they shall see God.

240) All knowledge depends upon calmness of mind.

241) Two is company; three is none.

242) To talk about ones real problem is the surest way to go mad.

243) J udge a flower by its look but not a human being.

244) Where there is peace; there is God.

245) Labor yourself and the whole world will bow at your feet.

246) I live not for myself but for my Lord who is the maker.

247) No pride is pride that expresses the glory of the soul.

248) No humility is humility that humiliates the self.

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249) To become great one must be humble.

250) If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

251) Simple mindedness takes one easily to God.

252) Never look a woman in the face, but always look at her feet. All evil thoughts
will then fly away.

253) Will of prayer is the worth of peace.

254) Be sincere; act according to your thoughts; and you shall surely succeed.

255) My heart is not hungry for pain or pleasure but for peace in this beautiful world.

256) God is one, but His aspects are many.

257) Be not a thief of your own thought.

258) I and mine is ignorance. Thou and thine is knowledge.

259) One becomes as one thinks.

260) As one thinks, so does one become.

261) Beware of selfish and false friends.

262) A friend in need is a friend indeed.

263) Everything is best at its own place.

264) Never listen to one friend in private accusing another.

265) Union is strength.

266) Distress goes where justice prevails.

267) Kindness triumphs in the end.

268) Tit for tat.

269) Do unto others, as you wish to be done by.

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271) As you sow, so shall you reap.
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272) The love of money is the root of all evil.

273) Do good to others but dont love them.

274) Hesitate not others but yourself.

275) Avoid bad company and you will be clean.

276) Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

277) Advisory is the touchstone of friendship.

278) Politeness is the flower of humanity.

279) Bear your emotions with strong will in your love of God.

280) Let muddy water be still and it will gradually become clear.
Be calm in difficulties and they will gradually disappear.

281) No amount of money will equally satisfy mothers love.

282) Mothers love cannot be compared with any odd things in this world.

283) A man is known by the company he keeps.

284) God gives and forgives. Man gets and forgets.

285) All pessimism has a secret optimism for its object.

286) Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

287) The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

288) J ack-of-all-trades but master of none.

289) Who finds a friend finds a treasure.

290) If you want to keep your friends you should not be continuously giving them
advice. ---- Anthony Eden.

291) One has to pay for his misdeeds.

292) Good acts leave an indelible mark.

293) Ingratitude is the worst of all sins.

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294) Man should always maintain equanimity.

295) Good man should be honored.

296) I love not man the less but nature more. ---- Byron.

297) Gods are pleased if woman are honored.

298) True devotee need not renounce the world.

299) Goal of life is realization of self.

300) Service to God must be free from ego.

301) Help to the suffering pleases God.

302) Faith in God must be absolute.

303) Penance, great means to achievement.

304) Cleanliness brings health, and health brings happiness.

305) Knowledge is the secret of success in life.

306) Laughter does not kill like bullets.

307) Laughter can do you no harm.

308) The wise cling to Gods feet.

309) Spiritual teachings are immortal.

310) Divine names are power packed.

311) Do what you think is right, come what may.

312) Stick to your guns dead or alive.

313) God will bless the man who strives.

314) No man was ever great who never literally worshipped his mother.

315) Spiritual earnestness is the highest of all power.

316) When in difficulties think of the poorer.

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317) Music is the medium to realize God easily.

318) Delay is the enemy of efficiency and waiting is the enemy of utilization.

319) Personality is to man what perfume is to flower.

320) A man without self-confidence is like a ship without a rudder.

321) Have the courage to get according to your conviction.

322) Make up your mind to succeed.

323) Be reliable and honest.

324) Have grit and determination.

325) Make yourself valuable to your employees.

326) Begin at the bottom and work up.

327) Dont be afraid of work.

328) Do more than is expected of you.

329) Know all about your business.

330) There is no happiness in life unless you work hard.

331) Play on boys; that is life.

332) Men makes laws; woman makes manners.

333) Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

334) To be over polite is to be rude.

335) Where boasting ends, there begins dignity.

336) Excuse others for their shortcomings but not yourself.

337) Act promptly and strike the iron while it is hot.

338) Punctuality in your appointments often gives you nice dividends.

339) Never waste a minute if you can utilize it to some better purpose.

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340) Respect the feelings and faiths of the persons you happen to meet and talk to.

341) Ignore of facts is bliss to fools, but a crime for intellectuals.

342) Take time to laugh; it is the music of soul.

343) Everyday, men see creatures depart to yamas abode and yet those who remain
seek to live forever. This verily is the greatest wonder. ---- Mahabharatham.

344) When a thing is done, it is done. Dont look back. Look forward to your next
objective.

345) Sincerity is the only virtue that binds the divinity and man in one.

346) Work keep at bay three great evils boredom, vice and need. ---- Voltaire.

347) The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has
to do.

348) Man cannot degrade women without falling into degradation; he cannot elevate
her without at the same time elevating himself.

349) If winter comes can spring be far behind.

350) Honor and shame from no condition rise; act thy part well; there all the honor
lies. ---- Pope.

351) Knowledge is power.

352) Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

353) The better part of valor is discretion.

354) Art is long and time is fleeting.

355) Lead others not by violence but by law and equity.

356) There is tide in affairs of men which taken of the flood leads on to fortunes,
omitted all the voyages of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

357) Where the women are honored there all the Gods reside.

358) Behold the kindness done without thought of recompense; the ocean will look
small when compared with its worth.

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359) It is through religion that the feet of youth can be set on the road to absolute
values, truth, beauty and goodness.

360) Devoid of education we are all beasts.

361) Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body.

362) A teacher can never teach unless he is still learning himself.

363) The fool cannot be mended by flogging and he who flogs is the greatest fool.

364) Man is the greatest truth of all and there is nothing beyond him.

365) I do not care for liberation or for devotion. I would rather go to a hundred
thousand hells doing good to others silently like the spring, which is my
religion.

366) I wish to have, O Lord, a few friends who understand me and yet remain my
friends.

367) It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal
life.

368) That which you give is yours; that which you retain is not yours.

369) Errors like straw float upon the surface flow and who is in search of truth must
dive below.

370) Charity begins at home.

371) Rome was not built in a day.

372) Man proposes, God disposes.

373) Make hay while the sun shines.

374) Vows made in storm are forgotten in calm.

375) Whistling maid and crowing hen are neither fit for gods nor men.

376) A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

377) One flower makes no garland.

378) All that glitters is not gold.

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379) Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

380) There are men and men and every stone is not a gem.

381) Fortune knocks at least once at every mans door.

382) To err is human; to forgive is divine.

383) What cannot be cured must be endured.

384) Beauty requires no ornament.

385) Cleanliness is next to godliness.

386) East or west home is the best.

387) A quiet tongue shows a wise head.

388) A backbiter will let out all the secrets.

389) Drop by drop the lake is drained.

390) Give a loan and make an enemy.

391) Who hath God, hath all.

392) No pains, No gains.

393) Out of frying pan, into the fire.

394) The wearer only knows where the shoe pinches.

395) A burnt child dreads the fire.

396) Coming events cast their shadows before.

397) Beggars should not be choosers.

398) Deep rivers move with silent majesty, shallow brooks are noisy.

399) Birds of a same feather flock together.

400) A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

401) A bad workman quarrels with his own tools.

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402) Fog cannot be dispelled by a fan.

403) All is well that ends well.

404) Everything looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

405) A drowning man catches at a straw.

406) Many a little makes a mickle.

407) Love begets love.

408) Misfortunes never come alone.

409) Virtue is its own reward.

410) Slow and steady win the race.

411) Fools rush in where angels fear to trade.

412) An honest man is always a child.

413) Hell is paved with good intentions.

414) Kings are like stars, they rise and glow, and they have the worship of the world
but no repose.

415) Look before you leap.

416) Art is long and life is short.

417) Life is short make it sweet.

418) Health is wealth.

419) Life is thorny; and youth is vain; and to be worth with one we love doth work
like madness in the brain.

420) All sincere prayers are granted, every call is answered.

421) An aimless life is always a miserable life.

422) It is only when we are not disturbed that we can always do the right thing, at the
right time in the right way.

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423) You should always do what you say, but it is not always wise to say all that you
do.

424) Always do what you know to be the best even if it is the most difficult thing to
do.
425) You must abstain from thinking about someone when you cannot think well of
him.

426) The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive.

427) When two persons quarrel always both are in the wrong.

428) To smile at an enemy is to disarm him.

429) Doubt is not a sport to indulge in with impurity; it is a poison, which drop by
drop corrodes the soul.

430) J ealousy is a deadly poison that is fatal to the soul.

431) Before getting angry for the mistakes of others one should always remember
ones own mistakes.

432) One of the chief obstacles to the establishment of a progressive harmony is our
eagerness to prove to an opponent that he is wrong and we are right.

433) You have no right to judge a man unless youre capable of doing what he does
better than himself.

434) Timidity is a form of vanity, when you are timid; it means that you attach much
more importance to the opinions others have of you.

435) Our best friend is he who loves us in the best of ourselves and yet does not ask
us to be other than what we are.

436) There is no better way to become friends than to laugh together.

437) It is always better to keep a quiet mind and to abstain from rushing to conclusion
before you have the necessary information.

438) Be fearless and resolute, all obstacles will melt away before you.

439) Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, all ignorances.

440) It is not because a thing is difficult that one should give it up, on the contrary the
more a thing is difficult the more determined one should be to succeed in it.

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441) Do not pretend ------ be.
Do not promise ------ act.
Do not dream ------ realize.

442) There is a great beauty in simplicity.

443) To conquer the difficulties there is more power in a smile than in a sight.

444) Faith is the surest guide in the darkest days.

445) Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ---- Shakespeare.

446) Let not success go to your head, nor failure to your heart.

447) To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings;
To cultivate administration be among beautiful things and be looking at them.
---- Ruskin.

448) Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give, when to this truth you
woken then you begin t live.

449) Character is not readymade but is created bit-by-bit and day-by-day.

450) If you are idle, be not solitary, if you are solitary be not idle.

451) If, only the two saddest words in any language.

452) Always see the brighter side of a man.

453) J udge a flower by its look but not a human being.

454) No science can kill the evil in man.

455) A man can be trusted only in one way.

456) Both good and pleasant approach the man the wise on examining choose the
good.

457) A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

458) Religion is the opium of masses.

459) Unselfishness is the test of religion.

460) Where selfish ends, there begins religion.

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461) Love thy God with all thy soul.

462) Love thy neighbor as thy self.

463) Religion lies only in realization.

464) A real devotee does not pray to God for money or riches.

465) Never look upon any women as sex symbol.

466) Rama said: Brother, Lakshmana,
He who has knowledge has ignorance as well.
He who is aware of light is also aware of darkness.
He who knows good also knows bad.
He who knows happiness also knows misery.
Brother go beyond duality, beyond pleasure and pain, beyond knowledge and
ignorance.

467) Too much wealth makes one forget God that is the very nature of wealth.

468) All is possible to the human mind the most powerful thing in the world.

469) Ambition without effort is like a bird without wings.

470) Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

471) Here is one small step for a man one great leap for mankind.
---- Neil Armstrong.

472) Whoever has not two thirds of his time to himself is a slave. ---- Nietche.

473) In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

474) He who knows others is learned.
He who knows himself is wise.

475) What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
---- Bertrand Russell.

476) To seek a favor is to barter away ones freedom.

477) He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool ---- shun him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a simpleton ---- help him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep ---- wake him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man ---- follow him.

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478) The best answer to anger is silence.

479) Anger is only one letter short of danger.

480) An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

481) When a man is out of sight it is too long before he is out of mind.

482) The wind and the waves are always on the side of the best navigators.


483) Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

484) Dont let your parents down; they brought you up.
Be humble enough to obey; you may give orders some day.
Choose companions with care; you become what they are.
Guard your thoughts; what you think, you are.
Choose only a dame who would make a good mate.
Be master of your habits or they will master you.
Dont let the crowd pressure you.
Stand for something or youll fall for anything.

485) The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance. The wise person grows under
his feet.

486) Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ---- Shakespeare.

487) The light of knowledge can never dawn on the proud.

488) They alone rise who strive.

489) Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds to be.
---- Abraham Lincoln.

490) Any body can become angry that is easy. But
To be angry with the right person and to the right degree and to the right time
and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everybodys
power and is not easy. ---- Aristotle.

491) Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

492) You should always cherish some ambition to do some thing in this world.

493) Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

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494) To be just correct and static in a changing and dynamic world is to be left behind
in spite of all correctness.

495) So long as we dont adhere to right means the end will not be right and fresh,
evil will flow from it.

496) The main thing to make me happy is intelligence, as it can be fostered by
education. ---- Bertrand Russell.

497) What we need is not the will to believe but the wish to find out.
---- Bertrand Russell.

498) Conference is a gathering of people where single can do nothing, but in a group
can decide nothing could be made out of nothing.

499) Meeting is a body, which keeps minutes but wastes hours.

500) Collaboration the process whereby two people create something each thinks is
his own.

501) There is no distance on this earth as faraway as yesterday.

502) Life is a tragedy for those who feel and comedy for those who think.

503) What your brain is going to conceive is what you are going to achieve in your
life.

504) Nothing is difficult to a man who has persistence.

505) The truest wisdom is the resolute determination.

506) People who lack persistence are candidates for failure.

507) The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and
doing a thing exactly right.

508) Pride goes before a fall.

509) One cant see a perfect person with an imperfect eye.

510) Our limited vision is our limitation.

511) The present is in your hand the future is only a promise.

512) Your attitude determines your altitude.

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513) Smiling wins more friends than frowning.

514) Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

515) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
---- Aristotle.

516) Sow a thought, reap an action;
Sow an action, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.

517) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us. ---- O.W.Holmes.

518) Things, which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things, which matter
least. ---- Goethe.

519) There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without
integrity. ---- Samuel Johnson.

520) The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. ---- Pascal.

521) If anyone speaks ill of you
Praise him always,
If anyone injures you
Serve him always,
If anyone persecutes you
Help him in all possible ways.
You will attain immense strength.
You will control anger and pride.
You will enjoy peace, poise and serenity.
You will become divine.
----- Sivananda.

522) If justice perishes, there is no further point in men living on earth. ---- I.Kant.


523) The chief thing that makes life a failure (from the artistic point of view)is
the fact that one can never repeat exactly the same emotion.---- Oscar Wilde.


524) Without sensibility no object would be given to us.
Without the understanding no object would be thought.
Thoughts without content are empty.

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Intuitions without concepts are blind
Quotes
The understanding can intuit nothing.
The senses can think nothing.
Only through their union can knowledge arise. ---- I.Kant.


525) Doing what you like is freedom; liking what you do is happiness.
---- Anonymous.


526) Where there is sorrow there cannot be love. ---- J.K.

527) The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in
nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
---- Mark Twain.

528) Every man has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and
that which he thinks he has. ---- Alphonse.

529) Too many people think of security instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death. ---- James F.Byrnes.

530) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
---- Abraham Lincoln.

531) It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
---- Rene Descrates.

532) We must try to trust one another. Stay and cooperate. ---- Jomo Kenyatta.

533) Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more; and all good things will be yours. ---- Swedish proverb

534) Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us
while we live. ---- Norman Cousins.

535) Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources
that are within thy reach.

536) The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
537) High thoughts must have high language. ---- Aristophanes.

538) Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. ---- The Bible.

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539) Whoever you are I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
---- Tennessee Williams.
540) I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so
until the end. ---- Abraham Lincoln.

541) Civilization advances by executing the number of important operations, which
we can perform without thinking about them. ---- Alfred North Whitehead.

542) A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen
and philosophers and divines. ---- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

543) You can observe a lot by watching. ---- Yogi Berra.

544) These unhappy times call for the building of plans
---- Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

545) Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for
everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even the most difficult to
please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
---- Rene Descrates.

546) Better to ask than to go astray. ---- Italian proverb.

547) Chiefly the mould of a mans fortune is in his own hands. ---- Francis Bacon.

548) The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
---- Arthur Schopenhauer.

549) Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom. ---- Greek proverb.

550) All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. ---- Samuel Johnson.

551) Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. ---- Samuel Johnson.

552) Knowledge is the food of the soul. ---- Plato.

553) We learn by doing. ---- Aristotle.

554) When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
---- Emerson.

555) Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ---- St.Augustine.
556) It is better to lose an argument and win a friend than to win an argument and
lose a friend.


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557) To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ---- William.
Quotes
558) I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. Confucius.

559) Each work has to pass through these stages ridicule, opposition and then
acceptance.

560) Remain fearless in any situation (Abhaya).
Refrain from injuring any life (Ahimsa).
Give up worldly desires (Asanga).
Be ever in the state of bliss (Ananda).

561) Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ---- Leonardo Da Vinci.

562) Knowledgeable know facts. Successful and prosperous people know people.

563) If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

564) Faith is everything

565) The greatness of love is felt in its absence.

566) To keep your secret is wisdom.
To expect others to keep it is folly. ---- Samuel Johnson.

567) He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ---- Francis Bacon.

568) He is most free from danger, who, even when safe is on his guard.
---- Publilius Syrus.

569) Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. ---- Einstein.

570) Great man complains about his own inabilities, not about people's ignorance of
himself.

571) Great man's concern is that he may die without a good name.

572) Great man demands it of himself, petty man, of others.

573) You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long
enough to make them all yourself. ---- Sam Levenson.

574) When strict with oneself one rarely fails.
575) Great man seeks to be slow of speech but quick of action.

576) Excellence does not remain alone; it is sure to attract neighbors.


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577) Great man is conscious only of justice, petty man, only of self-interest.
Quotes

578) When you see a man of the highest caliber, give thought to attaining his stature.
When you see one who is not, go home and conduct a self-examination.

579) If you have learned about system in the morning, you may let yourself die that
same evening.

580) He who engages solely in self-interested actions will make himself many
enemies.

581) Admit that you do not know what you do not know - that is knowledge.

582) Great man, out of a sense of pride, does not engage in strife; out of
consideration for the group as a whole he does not join cliques.

583) Do not worry that people do not know you. Worry that you may not be worth
knowing.

584) Man loves woman like one thirsty asking for a drink.
Woman loves man like one in a hot climate seeking for a cool place.
Therefore the latter stays longer.

585) There can be no new sorrow in the world.

586) Where there is a division there cannot be a union.

587) Luck is the convergence of preparation and opportunity.

588) When you know the cause you know the effect.

589) When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe. ---- Plato.

590) Prayer is silence.

591) Charity is far worth than chanting the God's name.

592) Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow's troubles; it empties today's strengths.

593) Do not hate the evil-hearted, the jealous and the selfish it is they who promote
your salvation.

594) When the heart is purified, the mind is naturally turned towards God.

595) Compassion at the purest, selfless level can have no trace of emotion in it.


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596) One who gets angry is the one who experiences misery.
Quotes

597) Vision without action is like a dream;
Action without vision is like passing time;
Vision with action changes the world.

598) Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ---- Aesop.

599) Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. ---- Thomas Fuller.

600) Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead, for
the door of choice is not open either to thee or me. ---- Hafiz.

601) Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by
controlling the desire.
---- Epictetus.

602) Attachment and Discontent

To whatever extent the five senses, the four taints of emotions and the four
instinctive appetites are suppressed by a person who is well established in the
path of righteousness, to such extent the doorway for the entrance of evil is
closed for that person. ---- Acarangasutra.

603) The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ---- George
Gritter.

604) The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must
live with a character. ---- Peter Deuries.

605) God looks only to men's motives.

606) Contemplation on God cannot lead to mental derangement.

607) Who hath god; hath all.

608) Work is worship; worship is necessary even for the rise of knowledge.

609) All scriptures is given by inspiration of God.

610) Prayer is the compass needle of life.

611) A mans best friends are his ten fingers.

612) Knowledge is power.


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613) A modest man never talks himself.
Quotes

614) Power comes from sincere service.

615) Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.

616) Human nature is greedy of novelty.

617) Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

618) Obedience alone gives the right to command.

619) Honest labor bears a lovely face.

620) The fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

621) Laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

622) Faith is the continuation of reason.

623) He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it.

624) Life is long if you know how to use it.

625) Wise men never sit wail their loss.

626) All good things, which exist, are the fruit of originality.

627) Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

628) Error tolerates, truth condemns.

629) An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

630) Rashness and haste make all things insecure.

631) Language is the dress of thought.

632) One flower does not make a garland.

633) Victory belongs to the mot persevering.

634) He who begins many things finishes nothing.

635) If the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.


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636) Laugh if you are wise.
Quotes

637) Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.

638) Without labor nothing prospers.

639) Vote should be weighed, not counted.

640) A picture is a poem without words.

641) We are each responsible for our own happiness.

642) Confidence; you get it by getting it.

643) Age measures also experience.

644) Compliments are only lies in court cloths.

645) Be good to all and treat all kindly.

646) It is our thoughts, which keep us awake.

647) It is better to bend than to break.

648) Wealth and wisdom do not mix.

649) All love shared is good.

650) Common sense is not so common.

651) Quality is more important than quantity.

652) You are judged by the company you keep.

653) There is no gambling like politics.

654) A truthful person shines like a star.

655) We choose that which we wish continued.

656) Delay of justice is injustice.

657) The clothes make the man.

658) Distance lends enchantment to the view.


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659) Experience depends upon perception.
Quotes

660) Man is read in his face.

661) It is injustice, which breeds hatred.

662) United we stand divided we fall.

663) Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

664) Even the wildest can be tamed by love.

665) The deepest hunger of a faithful heart is faithfulness.

666) Discovery is one more way of finding answers.

667) The better part of valor is discretion.

668) The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

669) Those who do not complain are never pitied.

670) Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

671) All is holy where devotion kneels.

672) Lets go hand in hand, not one before another.

673) Tempt not a desperate man.

674) It is easy to flatter, it is harder to praise.

675) A fault confessed is half redressed.

676) J udge not and you shall not be judged.

677) Obedience is better than sacrifice.

678) Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

679) Time and tide wait for no man.

680) Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

681) Example is lesson that all men can read.


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682) He conquers who endures.
Quotes

683) When in doubt, win the trick.

684) Constancy is the foundation of virtues.

685) Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

686) Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

687) Education is the chief defense of nations.

688) Waste not, want not. Willful waste makes woeful want.

689) Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

690) Sorrows best antidote is employment.

691) Good intentions are not good unless carried out.

692) Idleness is only the refuge of weak mind.

693) A house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

694) Imagination rules the world.

695) Fidelity is the sister of justice.

696) The happy only are the truly great.

697) Coming events cast their shadows before.

698) Lost time is never gained again.

699) A good heart is worth gold.

700) Indolence is the sleep of mind.

701) Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

702) Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

703) Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

704) Brutes leave ingratitude to man.


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705) An ideal is that which never touches the real.
Quotes

706) Sweet the help of one we have helped.

707) Hatred is a settled anger.

708) The first wealth is health.

709) There is no instinct like that of the heart.

710) Humility is the key to quick success.

711) Home is where the heart is.

712) Genius must be born, it can never be taught.

713) No greater shame to man than inhumanity.

714) He travels the fastest who travels alone.

715) There is no wisdom like frankness.

716) Hate is the subtlest form of violence.

717) Forgiveness adorns a soldier.

718) Experience is the name every one gives to their mistake.

719) Influence is the exhalation of character.

720) Education begins with life.

721) Nothing is so infectious as example.

722) A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg.

723) Behavior alone it is that creates friends and foes.

724) Hatred is self-punishment.

725) Let faith be thy staff.

726) To err is human, to forgive divine.

727) Custom reconciles us to everything.


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728) Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Quotes

729) History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

730) All may do what by man has been done.

731) If money goes before, always doors lie open.

732) To err is human; to persist in error is devilish.

733) Dont count your chickens before they are hatched.

734) The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

735) Good order is the foundation of all things.

736) Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

737) Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

738) Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

739) Boldness is an ill keeper of promise.

740) Let a man overcome anger by kindness, evil by good.

741) Learn from any who is wise, though a boy.

742) No man can serve two masters.

743) Faith is the continuation of reason.

744) Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

745) Evil befalls him who doeth evil.

746) Keep your mind pure in the battlefield of life.

747) Real beauty is the beauty of soul.

748) Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

749) Study serves for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

750) None but the brave deserves the fair.


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751) Law is eternal and of inherent validity.
Quotes

752) Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

753) Life is not a spectacle or a feat; it is a predicament.

754) Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

755) A good name is better than precious ointment.

756) Virtue is its own reward.

757) All for one, one for all.

758) Sympathy is the key that fits the lock of any heart.

759) It is better not to be than to be unhappy.

760) Man proposes, but God disposes.

761) Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

762) Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

763) Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

764) Never seem wiser on more learned than your company.

765) He who trusts his secrets to a servant makes him master.

766) The unspoken word never does harm.

767) The right thing to do is to dare to do the right at any cost.

768) In victory the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

769) Begin, not with a programme, but with a deed.

770) A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

771) Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

772) Not happy now, will never be.

773) Things do not change; we change.


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774) Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Quotes

775) Laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

776) Beauty is a short-lived reign.

777) The best of men have ever loved repose.

778) The secret of success is constancy in purpose.

779) The shame is in the crime not in the punishment.

780) Life is not life at all without delight.

781) People do not lack strength; they lack will.

782) Silence is one great art of conversation.

783) Figures wont lie, but liars will figure.

784) Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

785) Better to be harmless, than helpful.

786) Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.

787) Our attitudes govern our destiny.

788) How we live is important, not how long.

789) Misfortune and twins never come singly.

790) The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

791) It is more blessed to give than to receive.

792) Vengeance has no foresight.

793) Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

794) Beggars must not be choosers.

795) Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

796) We live in our desires rather than in achievements.


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797) Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Quotes

798) Man shall not live by bread alone.

799) Pen is mightier than sword.

800) To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

801) In friendship there should be no pretence.

802) Truth lies beyond our selfish pursuits.

803) In silence there is strength.

804) Practice yourself what you preach.

805) Hearing brings wisdom, speaking repentance.

806) Brevity is the soul of wit.

807) Early and provident ear is the mother of safety.

808) All that glitters is not gold.

809) He never errs who sacrifices self.

810) All art is but imitation of nature.

811) Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

812) Laws die, books never.

813) Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

814) The natural role of twenty first century man is anxiety.

815) A lie never lives to be old.

816) Actions are mightier than boastings.

817) A friend in need is a friend indeed.

818) He is happy who thinks he is.

819) Do wrong to none.


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820) Strong reasons make strong actions.
Quotes

821) Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

822) Great causes are never tried on their merits.

823) An open purse tempts a saint.

824) Good luck never comes late.

825) The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

826) Freedom cannot live where there is injustice.

827) No pains, no gains.

828) Ability is poor mans wealth.

829) My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

830) Better be three hours soon than one minute late.

831) Constant practice often excels even talent.

832) Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

833) Sometimes quiet is disquieting.

834) The best hearts are ever the bravest.

835) To accept good advice is but to increase ones ability.

836) The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

837) The highest duty is to respect authority.

838) Anger is one of the sinews of soul.

839) Necessity is mother of invention.

840) Our praises are our wages.

841) Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

842) Music is the medicine of breaking heart.


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843) Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
Quotes

844) Music is the universal language.

845) Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

846) To understand is to pardon.

847) Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

848) Unjust rule never endures perpetually.

849) Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

850) To enjoy life one should give up the lure of life.

851) The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

852) He who serves the poor is great in the eyes of God.

853) Talent does what it can. Genius, what it must.

854) Tell me and Ill forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and Ill
understand. ---- Chinese Proverb.

855) That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task
has changed, but our ability to do has increased. Emerson

856) Things, which matter most, must never be at the mercy of things, which matter
least. Goethe

857) Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of
many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that
you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your
children. - Albert Einstein
858) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -
Mark Twain
859) Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. -
Abraham Lincoln

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860) You deal with the world the way it is, not the way it was.
Quotes
861) All mans miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. -
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
862) Women, without her man, is nothing.
Women! without her, man is nothing.
863) The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. George
Gritter

864) A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step.
865) Far wiser than the fool who roams around is the fool who stays at home.
866) In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of
our enemies.

867) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people
will find a way around the laws.

868) Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. Confucius.

869) Truth, Purity, Unselfishness wherever these are present there is no power above
or below the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Swami Vivekananda.

870) Its a law of human life as certain as gravity. To live fully we must learn to use
things and love people and not love things and use people. John Powell.

871) Hatreds do not cease by hatreds, by love alone they cease. This is an ancient law.
Lord Buddha.

872) All expansion is life.
All contraction is death.
All love is expansion.
All selfishness is contraction.
Love therefore is the only Law of Life. Swami Vivekananda.

873) J esus answered and said unto him verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man
be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3

874) He who sees me in all things in me, he never becomes separated from me nor do
I become separated from him. Bagavat Gita.

875) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

876) Behind every problem is a brilliantly disguised opportunity.


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877) Insurance for the unexpected. Investments for the opportunities.
Quotes
878) If you know your enemy and know yourself you need not fear the result of
hundred battles.
If you didnt know your enemy and know yourself, for every victory you gained
you will see a defeat.
If you neither know your enemy nor yourself you will succumb in the battlefield.

879) He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is ignorant teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep - wake him.
But he who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man - follow him.

880) People can be divided into three groups:
those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen, and
those who ask, What happened?

881) Weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks
Strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.
- Sun Tzu.
882) The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when youre
finished.

883) What is Success?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

884) A short course on Leadership by John Adair.
The six most important words I admit I make a mistake.
The five most important words I am proud of you.
The four most important words What is your opinion?
The three most important words If you please.
The two most important words Thank you.
The one most important word We.
And the least most important word I.

885) Experience
Good judgment comes from experience.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.
Quotes
886) The Greatest Things
The best day - Today.
The greatest sin - Fear.
The best gift - Forgiveness.
The meanest feeling - J ealousy.
The greatest need - Common sense.
The most expensive indulgence - Hate.
The greatest troublemaker - Talking too much.
The greatest teacher - One who makes you want to learn.
The worst bankrupt -The soul that has lost its enthusiasm.
The cheapest, stupidest and easiest
things to do - Finding fault.

887) We expect to pass through this world but once, any good therefore we can do or
any kindness that we can show to any fellow creature Let us do it now; let us
not defer or neglect it for we shall not pass this way again.

888) Truth rates with God alone, and a little bit with me. Yiddish proverb.

889) You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstances.
Emerson.

890) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as
superstitions. Huxley.

891) Everybody wants to make pain interesting Its impossible just to suffer pain,
you have to suffer its meaning. Roth.

892) One thing only do I know for certain and that is that mans judgments of value
follow directly his wishes for happiness. Freud.

893) There are no sins in the metaphysical sense but, in the same sense, neither are
there any virtues. Nietzsche.

894) The knowledge of opposite is one. Aristotle.

895) The things that happen to a person are as characteristic of him as his needs.
Peck.

896) We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Gibran.

897) Freedom is the content. Necessity is the form. Jung.

898) Destiny is simply what we desire coming up to us in the disguise of what we
deserve. Barker.

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Quotes
899) The child ego state is our feeling self,
The adult ego state is our thinking self, and
The parent ego state is our evaluating self.

900) Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Pascal.

901) Actions speak louder than words.

902) If you take a persons adult life his love, his work, his hobbies, his ambitions
they all point back to the Oedipus complex. Malcolm.

903) Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you what you are.

904) Youve got to get worse before you can get better.

905) When men retire they die; when women retire they go on cooking.

906) Every new mind is a new classification. Emerson.

907) People happen to events. Rudhyar.

908) We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. Thoreau.

909) A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone
else. Shaw.

910) No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names
very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my
constitution; the only wrong what is against it. Emerson.

911) If a man has character, he also has his typical experience, which always recurs.
Nietzsche.

912) One mans paradigm is another mans untruth. Cohen.

913) Every man for himself.

914) We must select the illusion, which appeals to our temperament and embrace it
with passion, if we want to be happy. Connolly.

915) A large part of self-understanding is the search for appropriate metaphors that
make sense of our lives. Lakoff and Johnson.

916) Lying is both a cause and a manifestation of evil Peck.

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Quotes
917) Our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all, as contraries,
but then as opposite pole of a unity. Hesse.

918) Of the myriad lies that people often tell themselves, two of the most common,
potent and destructive are we really love our children and our parents really
loved us. Peck.

919) Once one is clear about the why of ones life, one can let its how? take care of
itself. Nietzsche.

920) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it Santayana.

921) It is easy to confuse hope with probability. Levi.

922) Pain is inescapable in life.

923) Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor
allows you to forgive yourself. Shaw.

924) Nobody wants anybody else to be happier than they themselves are.

925) Comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth,
you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either
comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the
end, despair. Lewis.

926) Danger the mother of morality. Nietzsche.

927) To be free is nothing; to become free is very heaven. Fichte.

928) Oh, while you live, tell the truth and shame the devil Shakespeare.

929) The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to
rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities. Nietzsche.

930) It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. Emerson.

931) It is the business of mythology proper, and of fairy tale, to reveal the specific
dangers and techniques of the dark interior from tragedy to comedy. Campbell.

932) Your personal history serves as a foundation for all your capabilities and your
limitations. Bandler & Grinder.

933) Suffering is not to be glorified; it is to be used. Rudhyar.


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934) It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Wilde.
Quotes
935) Three quarters of the evil done in the world happens out of timidity. Nietzsche.

936) Fear is produced by the memory of defeat whether this memory is strictly
personal in nature or is based on subconscious memory of previous collective
defeats. Rudhyar.

937) Religion is the greatest and most important of the efforts by which the human
race has manifested its impulse to perfect itself. Arnold.

938) Death is the total defense against anxiety. Lowen.

939) A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
Robbins.

940) The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as
meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Einstein.

941) When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so. Nietzsche.

942) To do nothing is equally to make a decision. Cloud.

943) Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would
act the angel acts the brute. Pascal.

944) All success involves failure along the way.

945) A person who does not lose his reason over certain things can have no reason to
lose. Freud.

946) I and the whole world are either mad or bad, but Im not sure which.

947) The best man is he who tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who
most feels he is perfecting himself. Socrates.

948) A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with
them. They are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. Freud.

949) Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. Shakespeare.

950) One always loves the person who understands you. Nin.

951) Intimacy is built on eliciting responses. Bandler & Grinder.

952) We are all inventions of each other. Roth.


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953) A spoiled child never loves its mother.
Quotes
954) Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
Spinoza.

955) Love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a
woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Kundera.

956) Revenge is necessary to re-establish equilibrium in the emotional life. It rules us,
deep down. It is at the root of Greek tragedies. Nin.

957) To have thoughts of revenge without the strength or courage to execute them
means to endure a chronic suffering, a poisoning of body and soul. Nietzsche.

958) Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of
another; people are friends in spots. Santayana.

959) At no time is an ounce of prevention better than a pound of cure than at the
beginning of a relationship. Greenwald.

960) Beneath the surface, most intimate relationships pivot on fear. Ferguson.

961) Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without
each other but choose to live with each other. Peck.

962) Love is the root of all goodness; fear is the root of all evil.

963) A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. Russell.

964) Really to live is an act of unceasing rebirth At the limit, the alternative to
transformation is death. Rudhyar.

965) The key to every man is his thought He can only be reformed by showing him
a new idea which commands his own. Emerson.

966) A man too good for the world is no good for his wife. Yiddish proverb.

967) Imperfection is a natural quality of the mortal, a law a compulsive neurotic
refuses to accept. Stekel.

968) The demand to be loved is the greatest kind of arrogance. Nietzsche.

969) The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak
over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. Wilde.


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970) If there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but who, in
eternity, came to no decision. Buber.
Quotes
971) The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong
reason. Eliot.

972) We have cause to fear who hates himself, for we shall be the victims if we
cannot seduce him into loving himself. Nietzsche.

973) Only my near-absence guarantees his near-presence, and it is an exhausting
game to play. OBrien.

974) Nothing is wrong except the refusal to play. Brown.

975) There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that
of the truth she reveals by causing us to suffer. Proust.

976) What we cannot face in ourselves we see in people we dislike; what we cannot
find in ourselves we see in those we love. Freeman.

977) Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Fuller.

978) A productive partnership cannot thrive on identification. Separateness, being
over against the other, is prerequisite to true encounter. Durkin.

979) One remains young only on condition the soul does not relax, does not long for
peace. Nietzsche.

980) Terrible are the wounds of a murdered dream. Kundera.

981) We are a process It requires a great deal of courage to face oneself and to be
oneself We may close our eyes, but the wheel still turns Freedom exists in
the ability to give crises either a meaning of growth and fulfillment or a
meaning of frustration and helplessness. Szanto.

982) True love does not shield others from understanding the consequences of their
actions. Fried Lander.

983) Upon those who sacrifice the future to the present the future will, in time, exact
a terrible revenge. Barker.

984) Death and certainty are synonymous; life and uncertainty are synonymous.

985) A mans growth is seen in the successive choice of his friends, for every friend
whom he loses for truth, he gains a betterNothing is secure but life, transition,
the energizing spirit. Emerson.

986) Forgetting is a form of death ever present within life. Kundera.

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Quotes
987) The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to
destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is
to change the past. Kundera.

988) A joke is the enemy of love and poetry Love cant be laughable Love has
nothing in common with laughter.

989) Without God to fall back on, we are left trembling at nothing.

990) The only certain reality for any of us is that of our own existence as an
individual Descrates.

991) After you have done what you need to do, then, you can do what you want but
only then.

992) You arrive at a better place in the end, when you pursue the real need at the
outset.

993) Forget injuries but not kindness.

994) Truly successful people pursue first what they need.

995) As a thing begins, so it ends.

996) All the worlds stage and all the men and women merely players. Shakespeare.

997) The world is the fairest of creation. Plato.

998) Nothing can be got out of thing, which is not in it.

999) Man is begotten by man and by the sun as well Aristotle.

1000) We can find no animal without some likeness to man. Eckhart.

1001) Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.
Boehme.

1002) God became man, that man might become God.

1003) God has created the world in play. Sri Ramakrishna.

1004) It is God Himself who is sporting in the form of man. Sri Ramakrishna.

1005) He Himself is the player and witness of the play. Swami Ramdas.


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1006) Light is the progenitive power.
Quotes
1007) If you possess true knowledge (gnosis), O soul, you will understand that you
are akin to your Creator. Hermes.

1008) The being of man is the noblest being of all made things.

1009) Realize thy simple self, embrace thy original nature. Tao Teching.

1010) The soul is by nature made for heaven and God is her lawful heritage.
Eckhart.

1011) Art cannot change or overstep the natural order of the universe. Henry
Madathanas.

1012) Man is the link between God and Nature As God has descended into man,
so man must ascend to God. Jili.

1013) God alone is good; all other things are incapable of containing such a thing as
the good. Hermes.

1014) God alone is good and perfect. Ananda Moyi.

1015) My strength is made perfect in weakness. Corinthians.

1016) When God loves a man, sin shall not hurt him. Mohammad.

1017) Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knows not what his ruin
shall be. Ecclesiasticus.

1018) Reverence not thy neighbor in his fall. Ecclesiaticus.

1019) Like is cured by like. Paracelsus.

1020) Ambrosia can be extracted even from poison;
elegant speech, even from a child;
good conduct, even from an enemy;
gold, even from impurity. Manava dharma - sastra.

1021) Thou art the first knave that ever made a duke. Shakespeare.

1022) He who conquers one passion, conquers many; and he who conquers many,
conquers one. Akaranga sutra.

1023) Cast away your existence entirely, for it is nought but weeds and refuse.
Shabistari.


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1024) The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best. Ali.
Quotes
1025) Evil can have no beginning, but from pride; nor any end, but from humility.
William Law.

1026) When the man in the soul, the intellect, is dead, unchecked evil prevails.
Eckchart.

1027) All the other vices flee God; pride alone rises up against Him. Boethius.

1028) The enemy is then more easily overcome, if he be not suffered to enter the
door of our hearts, but be resisted at the very gate, on his first knocking.

1029) Look not round about thee in the ways of the city, nor wander up and down in
the streets thereof. Ecclesiaticus.

1030) Let a wise man, like a driver of horses; exert diligence in restraint of his
senses straying among seductive sensual objects. Manavadharmasastra.

1031) Good men spiritualize their bodies; bad men incarnate their souls. Benjamin
Whichcote.

1032) Close the eye that sees falsely and open the intellectual eye.

1033) When God wishes well unto His servant He causes him to see the faults of his
soul. Mohammad.

1034) The first way to avoid evil is to know it, and to know the cause and occasion
of it. Benjamin Whichcote.

1035) It is the power of appearance that leads us astray. Plato.

1036) The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures you must
also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without
the other. Swami Brahmananda.

1037) As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

1038) To be overcome by pleasure is ignorance in the highest degree. Plato.

1039) People sleep and when they die they wake. Muhammad.

1040) When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has
found. Sufic Aphorism.

1041) The great glories of this world pass away in the twinkling of an eye. Tu
Lung.

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Quotes
1042) How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in
the waking state? Plato.

1043) Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinners sleep, dreaming
on both. Shakespeare.

1044) Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring
forth.

1045) Man knoweth not what the morrow will be. The events of the morrow are in
the hand of God. Egyptian Tradition.

1046) The life of this world is but comfort of illusion. Quran.

1047) Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes.

1048) Thou shall not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind. Tibetan
precept.

1049) Give not the power of thy soul to a woman, lest she enters upon thy strength,
and thou be confounded. Ecclesiaticus.

1050) Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is
finished, bringeth forth death.

1051) For of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom: and
custom not resisted, became necessity. St.Augustine.

1052) Every desire is insatiable, and therefore is always in want. Sextus the
Pythagorean.

1053) If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.
Ecclesiasticus.

1054) Desire never rests by enjoyment of lusts, like as fire surely increases the more
by butter (offered in it) Manava-dharma-sastra.

1055) The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man
all the days of their life. Ecclesiasticus.

1056) Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.


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1057) Our soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself. Julian of
Norwich.
Quotes
1058) Every natural thing in its own way longs for the Divine and desires to share in
the Divine life as far as it can. Aristotle.

1059) All that exists tends towards perfection, and thus is the philosophers stone
prepared! Abraham Lambspring.

1060) The whole human race is so miserable and above all so blind that it is not
conscious of its own miseries. Comenius.

1061) It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil
doing.

1062) There is no work of mortification equal to long-suffering.

1063) The wise, indeed, make lamentations at first; the foolish beat their heads at the
last. Rumi.

1064) Whoever blames God, despises his mercy. Boehme.

1065) Bear that which is necessary, as it is necessary. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1066) Let not poverty and misfortune distress you: for as gold is tried in the fire, the
believer is exposed to trials. Ali.

1067) No substance can be rendered perfect without a long suffering. Great is the
error of those who imagine that the philosophers stone can be hardened
without first having been dissolved; their time and their work are lost. Henry
Madathanas.

1068) Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. Quran.

1069) God sends us nothing that is too hard or too painful to bear. He proportions all
to our strength and abilities. Our trials are suited to our needs as the glove to
the hand of the wearer. All things will contribute to our sanctification if we
but cooperate with the designs of Divine Providence. St.Alphonsus Liguori.

1070) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. J ames.

1071) If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. St.John.

1072) You are not yet blessed, if the multitude does not laugh at you. Seneca.

1073) One who praises you for qualities you lack, will next be found blaming you
for faults not yours. Ali.


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1074) Philosophers have no honor in their cities. Plato.
Quotes
1075) A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own
kin, and in his own house.

1076) Your kinsmen are often farther from you than strangers. Ali.

1077) The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-
correction. Ali.

1078) Whom best I love I cross. Shakespeare.

1079) Someone asked, what is Sufism? The Shaykh said, To feel joy in the heart
at the coming of sorrow.

1080) When sadness and suffering become intense and intolerable, know for certain
that a new era is going to dawn bringing signal progress. Swami Ramdas.

1081) Man is perfect only when bestowal and denial, humiliation and honor, have
become alike in his heart.

1082) He is still weak for whom his native land is sweet, but he is strong for whom
every country is a fatherland, and he is perfect for whom the whole world is a
place of exile.

1083) Keep thyself as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth, who hath nothing to do
with the affairs of this world.

1084) In foreign countries they recognize home, and in every home they see a
foreign country.

1085) There is no question of time and space. Understanding depends on ripeness of
mind. What does it matter if one lives in the east or in the west? Sri Ramana
Maharishi.

1086) Rise above time and space, pass by the world, and be to yourself your own
world. Shabistari.

1087) Thou should know that it is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest
truth.

1088) Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.

1089) He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is Eckhart.

1090) If you do not first hate your body, my son, you cannot love your self.
Hermes.

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Quotes
1091) When young, beware of fighting;
when strong, beware of sex; and
when old, beware of possession. Confucius.

1092) A lion eats meat and yet it mates only once in twelve years; but a sparrow eats
grain and it indulges in sex-life day and night. Such is the difference between
a Divine Incarnation and an ordinary human being. Sri Ramakrishna.

1093) Consider the last of everything, and thou wilt depart from the dream of it.
Niffari.

1094) If a man holds aloof from the desires of this world, the misfortunes of this
world hold aloof from him. Hermes.

1095) He who has little will receive.
He who has much will be embarrassed. Tao Te Ching.

1096) The more we have the less we own. Eckhart.

1097) The poor man is not he whose hand is empty of provisions, but he whose
nature is empty of desires. Hujwiri.

1098) Everything, which is more than necessary to man, is hostile to him Sextus
the Pythagorean.

1099) Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest
desires are in a worse condition than those who have none or very slight ones.
Plato.

1100) To have but few desires and to be satisfied with simple things is the sign of a
superior man. Gampopa.

1101) The noblest victory of all the victory over pleasure. Plato.

1102) Throw pure gold into the fire: if it contains no alloy, what is there to burn?
Shabistari.

1103) In order to arrive at possessing everything desire to possess nothing. St.John
of the Cross.

1104) What thou holdest, passes away from thee, what thou losest, thou findest in
thee. St.Augustine.

1105) Desire is slavery; renunciation is freedom. Hermes.


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1106) Detachment abideth in itself. Eckhart.
Quotes
1107) He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Eckhart.

1108) The mind detached is of such nobility that what it sees is true, what it desires
befalls and its behests must be obeyed. Avicenna.

1109) Then is God in the man, when there is nothing in him, which is contrary to the
will of God. Tauler.

1110) The souls impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in
producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right
judgments. Epictetus.

1111) The greatest treasure next to God is a good will in this world. Even if all has
been lost, by it all can be regained. Angelus Silesius.

1112) When any disturbing news is brought to you, bear this in mind, that news
cannot affect anything within the region of the will. Epictetus.

1113) You carry heaven and hell with you. Sri Ramana Maharishi.

1114) The foundation of heaven and hell is laid in mens own souls. John Smith.

1115) Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will. Ecclesiaticus.

1116) Love, and do what thou wilt. St.Augustine.

1117) The all-important thing is to have a true heart, whether ones outward
appearance is good or bad. Honen.

1118) Actions will be judged according to intentions. Muhammad.

1119) Work your work before the time, and he will give you your reward in his time.
Ecclesiasticus.

1120) Stumbling is the fruit of haste. Ali.

1121) Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Shakespeare.

1122) Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. Milarepa.

1123) We should never pray to God that He may grant what we desire, but that His
will may be accomplished in us. St.Nilus.

1124) What Thou art, thus may I be.


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1125) To obey is better than sacrifice.
Quotes
1126) Wish that what is expedient and not what is pleasing may happen to you.
Sextus the Pythagorean.

1127) Suffer patiently, and you will receive more grace than if you now experienced
the most tender and fervent devotion. Tauler.

1128) Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. Talmud.

1129) When a man has his proper station in life, he does not hanker after what is
beyond him. Epictetus.

1130) Be obedient to your superior and your inferior will obey you. Ali.

1131) The greatest joy in Heaven is the will of God.

1132) Set thy sin beneath thy feet, and thy virtue beneath thy sin. Niffari.

1133) My heart is conquered more by your miseries than by your virtues. Sister
Consolata.

1134) God I have none, but I present my need. Robert Herrick.

1135) Nothing is demanded of thee so much as dependency, and nothing so speedily
brings thee bestowal as abasement and poverty.

1136) The best of moments for thee is a moment wherein thou witnesseth the fact of
thy poverty and art therein cast back upon thy destitution.

1137) If sun thou canst not be, then be the humble planet. Tibetan precept.

1138) The end of all strife and contention is regret; but the end of humility is
strength and possession.

1139) The rich man seeks gold, the poor man seeks God; the poor man in fact finds
gold, the other mud.

1140) To vaunt oneself is to fail of self-respect. Ali.

1141) Use your light, but dim your brightness. Tao Te Ching.

1142) Learn to know all, but keep thyself unknown. Gnostic Device.

1143) We are to practice virtue, not possess it. Eckhart.

1144) Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. Ali.

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Quotes
1145) Conceal your good deeds as you conceal your evil deeds.

1146) Be humble, and you will remain entire.
Be bent, and you will remain straight.
Be vacant, and you will remain full.

1147) Take the lowest place and ye shall reach the highest. Milarepa.

1148) Union comes by grace, the highest stooping down to inform the lowest, and
therein lies our hope of future sight. Eckhart.

1149) He who knows honor and yet keeps to humility will become a valley that
receives all the world into it. Tao Te Ching.

1150) Only seek it at the bottom of the vessel, or you will wander astray. Michael
Maier.

1151) The meek shall inherit the earth. Psalm.

1152) Be humble and meek if thou would be exalted.

1153) I have a sufficient witness to the truth of what I say my poverty. Plato.

1154) A foolish man proclaimeth his qualification,
A wise man keepeth them secret within himself,
A straw floateth on the surface of water,
But a precious gem placed upon it sinketh.

1155) Who is wise? He who learns from all men. Talmud.

1156) Man is humble when the flaming fire of desires has become extinct.

1157) One must be proud with the rich and humble with the poor A pride well
placed is humility.

1158) Die before ye die. Muhammad.

1159) Who dies not before dying, perishes when he dies.

1160) While living be a dead man.

1161) Give up thy life, if thou wouldnt live. Tibetan precept.

1162) The grave is the first stage of the journey into eternity. Muhammad.


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1163) Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live. Uyesugi Kenshin.
Quotes
1164) To sue to live, I find I seek to die, and, seeking death, find life. Shakespeare.

1165) Your substance will never be white, if it has not first been black. Philalethes.

1166) He that is dead is freed from sin. - Romans.

1167) One must be dead to see God. Eckhart.

1168) None of you shall see his Lord before dying. Muhammad.

1169) Seldom comes glory till a man is dead. Robert Herrick.

1170) One cannot see God and yet retain individuality. Sri Ramana Maharishi.

1171) True philosophers are always occupied in the practice of dying. Plato.

1172) Is not philosophy the study of death? Plato.

1173) As regards the community, I try to consider myself as already dead. In this
way everything becomes indifferent to me and I remain in peace. Sister
Consolata.

1174) The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. Sri
Ramakrishna.

1175) In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.
Ecclesiasticus.

1176) Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it
reaches you. Hermes.

1177) Forever it has been that mourners in their turn were mourned. Chinese poem.

1178) It has been proved to us by experience that if we would have pure knowledge
of anything we must be quit of the body. Plato.

1179) The foolish man conceives the idea of self the wise man sees there is no
ground on which to build the idea of self. Asvaghosha.

1180) The feeling of I and mine is the result of ignorance. Sri Ramakrishna.

1181) The word I does not exist for him who always sees the self.

1182) For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain.
Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable. Bhagavad-Gita.

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Quotes
1183) The living comes from the dead, just as the dead come from the living. Plato.

1184) That which goes out of being also comes into being; and that which comes
into being also goes out of being. Hermes.

1185) The destruction of one thing is the generation of another. The glory of the
world.

1186) Bodies are like pillowcases. It doesnt matter whether they remain or drop off.
Sri Ramakrishna.

1187) When a person here is deceasing, his voice goes into his mind; his mind, into
his breath; his breath, into heat, the heat, into the highest divinity.
Chandogya Upanishad.

1188) He who, at the time of death, thinking of Me alone, goes forth, leaving the
body, he attains unto my Being. There is no doubt in this. Bhagavad-Gita.

1189) The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, which hurts, and is desired.
Shakespeare.

1190) Your fear of death is really fear of yourself; see what it is from which you are
fleeing! Rumi.

1191) The truly wise mourn not either for the dead or for the living. Bhagavad-
Gita.

1192) As far as possible one should not interfere in the affairs of others. Sri
Ramana Maharishi.

1193) Hate roguery but not the rogue. Swami Sivananda.

1194) Let your words be of velvet and your arguments of steel. Swami Sivananda.

1195) Those that do not punish bad men, wish that good men may be injured.
Pythagoras.

1196) O my heart, rise not as a witness against me. Egyptian tradition.

1197) Not much can be done in the way of helping a man after he is dead. Plato.

1198) It is not death, but a bad life, that destroys the soul. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1199) God casts no soul away, unless it cast itself away. Every soul is its own
judgment. Boehma.

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Quotes
1200) During this mortal life we must choose eternal love or eternal death, there is
no middle choice.

1201) If you wish to learn in what condition the soul will be when it has quitted the
body, observe in what condition it is while it is joined with the body.
Hermes.

1202) Blessed is human birth; even the dwellers in heaven desire this birth: for true
wisdom and pure love may be attained only by man. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1203) There is no hell but selfhood, no paradise but selflessness.

1204) From the moment you come into the world of being, a ladder was placed
before you that you might escape.

1205) I do not create; I only tell of the past. Confucius.

1206) Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.

1207) Where true principles lack the results are imperfect. Henry Madathanas.

1208) Happy is the man who hath been initiated into the Greater Mysteries and leads
a life of piety and religion. Euripides.

1209) If you do not know the whole operation from beginning to end, you know
nothing at all. Helvetius.

1210) If thou see a man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, and let thy
foot wear the steps of his doors. Ecclesiasticus.

1211) The knowledge, which has been learned from a teacher best, helps one to
attain his end. Chandogya Upanishad.

1212) The path is one for all; the means to reach the goal must vary with the
pilgrims. Tibetan precept.

1213) When the fish is caught we pay no more attention to the trap. Huang Po.

1214) You cannot omit the outward if you wish to know the inward. The inward is
reflected in the outward world. Ananda Moyi.

1215) In symbols there is a meaning that words cannot define. Ibn al Farid.

1216) Philosopers speak many things by similitude. Geber.

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Quotes
1217) He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, he is intelligent among
men; he is a man of established wisdom and a true performer of all actions.
Bhagavad-Gita.

1218) Others fear what the morrow may bring. I am afraid of what happened
yesterday. Ansari.

1219) To regulate ones conduct in accordance with the law of cause and effect as
carefully as one guardeth the pupils of ones eyes is the sign of a superior man.
Gampopa.

1220) Four things support the world:
the learning of the wise,
the justice of the great,
the prayers of the good, and
the valor of the brave. Muhammad.

1221) Skillfulness in action is called yoga. Bhagavad-Gita.

1222) Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success. Swami Sivananda.

1223) I desire to have in everything a purpose, even in my eating, my drinking, and
my sleeping. Al-Ghazali.

1224) Man is the instrument of God. Boehme.

1225) Manage not thy own affairs, and I will make everything thy servant. Niffari.

1226) And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. St.Mathew.

1227) Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Shakespeare.

1228) The more you advance toward God, the less He will give you worldly duties
to perform. Sri Ramakrishna.

1229) The dogs bark; the caravan passes. Arabic proverb.

1230) Know that the greatest things, which are done on earth, are done within, in the
hearts of faithful souls. St.Louisde Montfort.

1231) Heaven and earth do nothing; yet there is nothing, which they do not
accomplish. Chuang-tse.


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1232) If the fruits of actions do not affect the person he is free from within. Sri
Ramana Maharishi.
Quotes
1233) Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless. Tao Te ching.

1234) The woman must reign, before she is overcome by the man. Philalethes.

1235) Seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labor. Basil Valentine.

1236) He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty. Tao Te ching.

1237) He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit
than he that taketh a city.

1238) The truly brave man, we contend, yields neither to fear nor anger, desire nor
agony; he is at all times master of himself. Ohiyesa.

1239) Valor is the conquest of ones owns self. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1240) Who is the man of courage and valor? It is he that subdues his concupiscence.
Benzoma.

1241) The real hero is he who has subjugated his mind. Swami Sivananda.

1242) The greatest victory I must now win is that over myself. Calderon.

1243) A mans enemies are the men of his own house. Micah.

1244) He that is in thee is much greater than all that are against thee. William Law.

1245) The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
And this is the way with the just. Plato.

1246) The life of man upon earth is a warfare. Job.

1247) You must make the most strenuous efforts throughout this life, you can never
be certain of living long enough to take another breath. HuangPo.

1248) Be vigilant even when asleep. Heinrichkhunrath.

1249) When you go abroad dont turn round at the frontier. Pythagoras.

1250) The mind like a thief is always lying in wait. Swami Sivananda.

1251) The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. Shakespeare.

1252) Philosophers are the patriarchs of heresy. Tertullian.

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Quotes
1253) I have always avoided with horror all error in matters of faith. Eckhart.

1254) There is no approach by a side-path here in the world. Maitri Upanishad.

1255) No success will come to him who obtains the secrets in an irregular way.
Kohung.

1256) They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at
truth, but follow vain desires. Dhammapada.

1257) To teach the evil-natured man knowledge and skill is to put a sword in the
hand of a brigand. Rumi.

1258) Do not sit with the frigid, for you will be chilled by their breath. Divani
ShamsiTabriz.

1259) Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.
Ecclesiasticus.

1260) More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason?
The Blessed Virgin at Fatima.

1261) Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.

1262) The wicked man thinks no good of anyone; for how should he imagine that
others have what he lacks himself? Ali.

1263) Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Exodus.

1264) The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Shakespeare.

1265) I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the
earth. Ecclesiastes.

1266) Pythagoras said, that luxury entered into cities in the first place, afterwards
satiety, then lascivious insolence, and after all these destruction. Stobacus.

1267) All philosophy agreeth in this, that the last end is the first mover. Peter
Sterry.

1268) God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1269) God is bliss. He is sat-chit-ananda. From Him no misery ever comes. Does the
sun ever give darkness? Where God is, there misery is not. He gives us only
pure bliss. Swami Ramdas.

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Quotes
1270) God is not the author of any evil. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1271) Wherever there is perturbation, there the Good cannot be, and wherever the
Good is, there no perturbation at all can be; even as wherever day is, night
cannot be, and wherever night is, day cannot be. Hermes.

1272) God is a light incapable of receiving its contrary (darkness). Sextus the
Pythagorean.

1273) There are two natures, one self-existent, and the other ever in want. Plato.

1274) Although your intellect is flying upward, the bird of your conventional notions
is feeling below. Rumi.

1275) It is always right that the superior should rule, and the inferior be ruled; and
Mind is superior to sensibility. Philo.

1276) It is not possible, my son, to attach yourself both to things mortal and to things
divine. Hermes.

1277) No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the
other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon. St.Mathew.

1278) Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. St.Mathew.

1279) Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city
or house divided against itself shall not stand. St.Mathew.

1280) When the mind turns instinctively and always to God, it will be cleansed of
lust, greed and wrath. Swami Ramdas.

1281) May the outward and inward man be at one. Plato.

1282) As the lesser mysteries are to be delivered before the greater, thus also
discipline must precede philosophy. Pythagoras.

1283) One must be pure in heart to enter into the life of the spirit and follow the
yogas. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1284) By light we lose light. Shakespeare.

1285) Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Ephesians.

1286) Repentance is a great understanding. The shepherd of Hermes.

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Quotes
1287) As often as the mind is outgoing, so often it should be turned within. Sri
Ramana Maharishi.

1288) Mans best chance of finding God is where he left him. Eckhart.

1289) One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the
like. Therefore one should direct them to God A man cannot see God unless
he gives his whole mind to Him. Sri Ramakrishna.

1290) The repentance of fear is caused by revelation of Gods majesty, while the
repentance of shame is caused by vision of Gods beauty. Hujwiri.

1291) Before a man can find God all his likings and desires have to be utterly
changed All things must become as bitter to thee as their enjoyment was
sweet unto thee. Tauler.

1292) He who loves that which is not expedient, will not love that which is
expedient. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1293) Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

1294) In the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by
forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Tauler.

1295) Show thy repentance to everything, and everything will ask pardon for thee.
Niffari.

1296) J esus (peace be upon him) said, Blessed is he who abandons a present desire
for a distant promise which he has not seen.

1297) Changing things you can touch and see and perceive with the senses, but the
unchanging things you can only perceive with the mind. Plato.

1298) He to whom you pray is nearer to you than the neck of your camel.
Muhammad.

1299) The device of a man who hath no device is patience. Arabic tradition.

1300) Whoever knocks persistently ends by entering. Ali.

1301) Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience. Ananda moyi.

1302) For endurance is a mighty charm, and patience giveth many good things.
The testament of Joseph.


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1303) Virtues office never breaks mens troth. Shakespeare.
Quotes
1304) To be faithful to ones engagements and obligations is the sign of a superior
man. Gampopa.

1305) Though to myself forsworn, to thee Ill faithful prove. Shakespeare.

1306) Belief and wisdom are twin brothers; God accepts not the one without the
other. Ali.

1307) God can be realized by true faith alone. Sri Ramakrishna.

1308) Silence is the garden of meditation. Ali.

1309) The highest yoga is the control of the mind. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1310) Proficiency in meditation amounts to fixity in the real. Sri Ramana
Maharishi.

1311) The well-resolved mind is single and one-pointed. Bhagavad-Gita.

1312) I would rather be in hell and possess God, than be in the kingdom of heaven
without God. Tauler.

1313) The wise man remains wholly centered in himself. Yoga-vasishtha.

1314) Truth by her own simplicity is known. Robert Herrick.

1315) Virgin is a person void of alien images, free as he was when he existed not.
Eckhart.

1316) Chastity is a lock that no one can open; what it is within, no outsider can
know. Angelus silesius.

1317) Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. St.Mathew.

1318) Our purity must be like that of the crystal. Swami Ramdas.

1319) Man, if paradise is not first within thee, then believe me for certain, thou wilt
never enter in. Angelus silesius.

1320) That man lives twice, that lives the first life well. Robert Herrick.

1321) He, whose mind is as calm as moonlight, whether at the approach of a feast or
of a battle, or even at the moment of death itself, is verily a saint. Yoga-
vasishtha.


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1322) It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts.
Quotes
1323) Unless the mind be trained to selflessness and infinite compassion, one is apt
to fall into the error of seeking liberation for self-alone. Gampopa.

1324) Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby
some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews.

1325) Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
Ali.

1326) Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. St.Teresa of Lisieux.

1327) Good men are bad mens instructors, and bad men are good mens materials.
Tao Te Ching.

1328) Then an enemy is like a treasure found in my house, won without labor of
mine; I must cherish him, for he is a helper in the way of to Enlightenment.
Santi deva.

1329) Be a serpent to the evil, but at the same time be a dove to the person. Peter
Sterry.

1330) Everything, by an impulse of its own nature, tends towards its perfection.
Dante.

1331) Truly do I exist in all beings, but I am most manifest in man. The human heart
is my favorite dwelling place. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1332) The closer the embrace, the sweeter the kiss. Mechthild of Magdeburg.

1333) Either was the others mine. Shakespeare.

1334) The madness of love is the greatest of heavens blessings. Plato.

1335) The wise man through earnestness, virtue, and purity, maketh himself an
island, which no flood can submerge.

1336) Nothing makes a thing beautiful but the presence and participation of Beauty
in whatever way or manner obtained By Beauty all beautiful things become
beautiful. Plato.

1337) Let each one of us leave every other kind of knowledge and seek and follow
one thing. Plato.

1338) I cannot fairly give the name of art to anything irrational. Plato.

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Quotes
1339) When you see the type of a nations dance, you know its character.
Confucius.

1340) Opposition unites. From what draws apart results the most beautiful harmony.
All things take place by strife. Heraclitus.

1341) The end of all motion is rest. Eckhart.

1342) I cast my hook in a single stream; but my joy is as though I possessed a
kingdom. Chi Kang.

1343) Going out were never so good, but staying at home were much better.
Theologica Germanica.

1344) We try to acquire so many things of the world, but find no peace in them. The
source of all happiness is within us. We have only to find out, know and
realize it. Swami Ramdas.

1345) Only the one is at rest in itself, receiving nothing from without. Eckhart.

1346) There is nowhere perfect rest save in a heart detached. Eckhart.

1347) Wise people, after they have listened to the laws, become serene, like a deep,
smooth, and still lake. Dhammapada.

1348) Never, above all, let anxiety gain the upper hand with thee, for if thou
becomest agitated; the demon will be content and will come off victorious.
Sister Consolata.

1349) Speaking tongues are the destruction of silent hearts. Al-Hallaj.

1350) He, who has the good, enjoys it in silence. The Sophic Hydrolith.

1351) Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.
Benjamin Franklin.

1352) Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been made
commonly available. Luis Alberto Machado.

1353) Art is expression informed by ideal beauty.

1354) Every man is born with a live computer of limitless possibilities, but without
the instruction manual. The most important job of science today is to draw up
that manual. Machado.


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1355) A peaceful mind is your most precious capital. Swami Sivananda.
Quotes
1356) Forget all about the brush and ink. Then you shall learn the truth about
landscapes. Ching Hao.

1357) Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out
of the mouth, this defileth a man. St.Mathew.

1358) Whoever says what he should not say, hears what he does not want to hear.
Ali.

1359) Satisfaction is quietness of heart under the course of destiny. Al-Muhasibi.

1360) Peace is in that heart in which no wave of desire of any kind rises. Swami
Ramdas.

1361) Every cup should be sweet to you, which extinguishes thirst.

1362) If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
Sri Ramana Maharishi.

1363) A man does not seek to see himself in running water, but in still water. For
only what is itself still can impart stillness into others. Chuang-tse.

1364) Philosophers are men whom too much learning and thought have made mad.
Michael Sendivogius.

1365) If God guides you not into the road, it will not be disclosed by logic.
Shabistari.

1366) He who is learned, is not wise; he who is wise, is not learned. Tao Te Ching.

1367) For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes.

1368) Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much
knowledge is a curse. Chuang-tse.

1369) Any one in whose soul God shall put the touchstone; he will distinguish
certainty from doubt. Rumi.

1370) As being is to becoming, so is pure intellect to opinion, and as intellect is to
opinion, so is science to belief, and understanding to the perception of
shadows. Plato.

1371) The perfection of human knowledge is ignorance of Divine knowledge. You
must know enough to know that you do not know. - Hujwiri.

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Quotes
1372) The truly learned man is he who understands that what he knows is but little
in comparison with what he does not know. Ali.

1373) Knowledge implies ignorance of what lies beyond what is known. Knowledge
is always limited. Sri Ramana Maharishi.

1374) Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no
better. Shakespeare.

1375) When you know that you do not know anything, then you know everything.
Swami Ramdas.

1376) The better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning
will be. Nicholas of Cusa.

1377) To know and yet not to do is in fact not to know. Wang Yang-ming.

1378) Knowledge without action is not knowledge. Hujwiri.

1379) A little knowledge, which you carry out in action, is more profitable than
much knowledge, which you neglect to carry out in action. May God have
mercy on him who knows and does. Hermes.

1380) Wisdom without action hath its seat in the mouth; but by means of action, it
becomes fixed in the heart. Shekel Hakodesh.

1381) Knowledge is simply recollection. Plato.

1382) Remembering is for those who have forgotten. Plotinus.

1383) Intuition is the outcome of the fusion of a purified heart and illumined
intelligence. Swami Ramdas.

1384) The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he
established the heavens.

1385) The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. Muhammad.

1386) Wisdom is better than weapons of war. Ecclesiastes.

1387) As fire consumes all things, so does the fire of knowledge consume all evil
and ignorance. Srimad Bhagavatam.

1388) Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.
Ecclesiasticus.

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Quotes
1389) If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice. Shakespeare.

1390) Love is inseparable from knowledge. St.Macarius of Egypt.

1391) May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy. Plato.

1392) No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is
above rubies. Job.

1393) There is no treasure like knowledge. Ali.

1394) Is there not true coin for which all things ought to be exchanged? and that is
wisdom. Plato.

1395) He who leaves home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God.
Muhammad.

1396) The man of learning lives even after his death: the ignorant man is dead, while
still alive. Ali.

1397) Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting
get understanding.

1398) Wisdom amazes all that is sensible of her, but is herself not amazed by
anything. Apollonius of Tyana.

1399) The gift of knowledge is the highest of all gifts. Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati
Swamigal.

1400) The Lord give thee understanding in all things.

1401) A mans wisdom maketh his face to shine. Ecclesiastes.

1402) Nothing is so peculiar to wisdom as truth. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1403) A philosophy comprehensive enough to embrace the whole of knowledge is
indispensable. Gampopa.

1404) The active life is a service, the contemplative life a liberty. St.Gregory the
Great.

1405) The highest pinnacle of knowledge is expressed in the fact that without it none
can know God. Hujwiri.

1406) All composition originates from a simple source. Marsilio Ficino.

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Quotes
1407) The neighbor first, and then the house. Rabia of Basra.

1408) Infinity and perfection do not admit of parts. Sri Ramana Maharishi.

1409) Realize God first, and all else will come to you automatically. Swami
Ramdas.

1410) They that seek the Lord understand all things.

1411) The sage learns no learning, but reviews what others have passed through.
Tao Te Ching.

1412) He that is not against us is for us. St.Luke.

1413) All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean
merges into the drop. Kabir.

1414) The very small is as the very large when boundaries are forgotten;
the very large is as the very small when its outlines are not seen. Seng tsan.

1415) Let him who desires to see God wipe his mirror and cleanse his heart.
Richard of saint-victor.

1416) Every contradiction is both false and true. Dante.

1417) The prophet is closer to the believers than their selves. Quran.

1418) True happiness is a thing that never gives rise to satiety. Hermes.

1419) He who knows himself verily knows his lord. Muhammad.

1420) He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. Tao Te
Ching.

1421) No one can be saved without self-knowledge. St.Bernard.

1422) Love in union is like the honeycomb in honey. Eckhart.

1423) A man ought to live always in perfect holiness. Plato.

1424) Not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued. Plato.

1425) It is impossible that that which is divine should go astray. Hermes.

1426) Turn yourself into gold and then live wherever you please. Sri Ramakrishna.

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Quotes
1427) The intellect of the wise man is always with divinity. Sextus the
Pythagorean.

1428) I am a common man, who only speaks the truth. Plato.

1429) The wise man is always similar to himself. Sextus the Pythagorean.

1430) God lends him wings who is not mounted on the body. Divani Shamsi
Tabriz.

1431) I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. Plato.

1432) The power of the sovereign proceeds from that of principle. Chuang-tse.

1433) So, when the intellect becomes thy captain and master, the dominant senses
become subject to thee. Rumi.

1434) The triumph of mediocre men brings down the elite. Ali.

1435) A man cannot comprehend spiritual things with his ordinary intelligence. Sri
Ramakrishna.

1436) A good traveler leaves no track. Tao Te Ching.

1437) The wise aspire to know, the foolish to relate. Anasb. Malik.

1438) It is better to conceal ignorance than to put it forth into the midst.
Heraclitus.

1439) Think the not-thought. Dogen.

1440) May the Great Mystery make sunrise in your heart. Sioux Indian.

1441) Do not overeat or starve completely, do not overwork or be totally lazy.

1442) Mind should be controlled, gossip should be avoided, attachment ought to be
given up and equanimity maintained.

1443) Anger has to be overcome by love;
evil by good;
greed by liberality and
lies by truth.

1444) He who is free from desires knows neither grief nor fear.


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1445) Know thyself. Nothing to excess.
Quotes
1446) Avoid doing all wicked action, practice most perfect virtue and thoroughly
subdue your mind.

1447) Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

1448) If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

1449) Anger makes dull men witty; but it keeps them poor.

1450) Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

1451) Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth it; grief flieth to it.

1452) There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

1453) Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

1454) Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact
man.

1455) A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

1456) I would live to study and not study to live.

1457) You are no better than you should be.

1458) But what is past my help is past my care.

1459) There is no other purgatory but a woman.

1460) Variety is the soul of pleasure.

1461) Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

1462) Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

1463) The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

1464) Fools make a mock at sin.

1465) A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

1466) A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.


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1467) A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Quotes
1468) A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fools back.

1469) Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

1470) Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

1471) As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

1472) The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a
reason.

1473) Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring
forth.

1474) Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

1475) A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

1476) Iron sharpeneth iron. So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

1477) Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet
will not his foolishness depart from him.

1478) He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

1479) A fool uttereth all his minds.

1480) Where there is no vision, the people perish.

1481) The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a roc; the way of a
ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

1482) In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

1483) Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise.

1484) Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.

1485) Make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest; but the life of the fool is
worse than death.

1486) All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

1487) The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue
breaketh bones.

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Quotes
1488) Envy and wrath shorten the life.

1489) Leave not a stain in thine honor.

1490) Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

1491) J ustice reigns when everyone minds his own business.

1492) Knowledge is true judgment supported by argument.

1493) It is the form, when imposed on the matter, which makes the latter what it is.

1494) Something has to be somewhere for anything to happen at all.

1495) It is men who have purposes and pursue ends.

1496) J ustice is done if everyone receives his fair portion.

1497) To live the good life one must have friends to consult and lean on as
circumstances might require.

1498) No ordinary mortal is self-sufficient that he can live alone.

1499) Those who excel in one sphere often think themselves superior in everything.

1500) It is the good that should have power.

1501) Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject
intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

1502) Once a woman is mans equal, she cannot be his goal. German poet Novalis.

1503) Love cannot thrive in inequality or extreme poverty.

1504) All art is imitative. Aristotle.

1505) What is important is not to live long but to live well. Aristotle.

1506) Time is a threefold present. The present properly so called is the only thing
that really is. The past lives as a present memory, and the future as a present
expectation.

1507) The only thing that one cannot doubt is that he thinks.

1508) It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. Ockham.

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Quotes
1509) A good mans anger lasts for a second, a middle mans for three hours, a base
mans for a day and night and a great sinners until death.

1510) Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

1511) Virtue has its own reward.

1512) Nothing man might not achieve if only his efforts are suitably directed and
applied.

1513) The one thing a doubter must admit is his own doubting.

1514) As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

1515) There are two tragedies in life. The first is not getting what you want; the
second is getting it. Oscar Wilde.

1516) Show me a hero, and Ill write you a tragedy. Scott Fitzgerald.

1517) You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.

1518) A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

1519) The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or
wishes rather than with their minds. Walter Duranty.

1520) The easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself; for what a man wishes, he
generally believes to be true. Demosthenes.

1521) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have
been! John Green leaf Whittier.

1522) Misfortunes one can endure, they come from the outside, they are accidents.
But to suffer for ones own faults ah there is the sting of life. Oscar
Wilde.

1523) No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. Thomas
Mann.

1524) The truth about a person lies first and foremost in what he hides.

1525) Fame is no guarantee of happiness. Fame frequently begets misery. In much
celebrity there is much sorrow. In much glory there is much grief.

1526) Real happiness sprang from effort, from accomplishment not just from fame.

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Quotes
1527) Society to be in it is a bore, to be out of it a tragedy. Oscar Wilde.

1528) By endeavor, diligence and self mastery let the wise man make of himself an
island that no flood can overwhelm. Buddha.

1529) Having to depend upon the goodwill of others is never wise.

1530) Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by
drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett.

1531) Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. Albert Einstein.

1532) Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own, he who
can, secure within him, say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden.

1533) Ideas are never a problem.

1534) Having a good idea is only one-way to success.

1535) A forest would not exist unless each tree had started out as a seed, but a sack
of seeds does not make a forest.

1536) Making ideas work is every bit as important as having the idea in the first
place.

1537) Success is a matter of doing things properly and well.

1538) No one can develop any one else apart from himself. The door to development
is locked from the inside. Chris Argyris.

1539) Innocence is a sister of stupidity, ignorance, naivet and other things we
would rather be without.

1540) A bore is someone who when asked how he is, tells you. Oscar Wilde.

1541) Wealth gained by the unlettered gave more sorrow than poverty of the learned.

1542) In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.


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1543) Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. Shelly.
Quotes
1544) Companionship among men is often sustained and enjoyed in silence.

1545) A contented mind is a continual feast.

1546) Contentment is a powerful antidote to this poison of greed.

1547) There are four sentinels who guard the domain of life divine. They are: peace,
contentment, company of the noble and discrimination.

1548) Nothing is more vulnerable than entrenched success.

1549) It is easy to enter into friendship but difficult to maintain them.

1550) The friendship between an introvert and an extrovert cannot work.

1551) Constant is the permanence of change.

1552) Each success and each failure offers the potential for positive learning.

1553) Experience may be a powerful teacher but it is also a very careless and
wasteful one.

1554) Purposive doings are not done for a purpose, that is for an ulterior purpose.
Aristotle.

1555) All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way. Anna Karennia Tolstoy.

1556) A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
Benjamin Franklin.

1557) They only are true friends who thrive as one. Ibid.

1558) Friends are Gods apology for relations. Hugh Kingsmill.

1559) The only really happy people are married women and single men.
H.L.Mencken.

1560) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the
maximum of opportunity. Bernard Shaw.

1561) I am dying beyond my means. Oscar Wilde.

1562) No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor
and persevering application. Steward.

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Quotes
1563) Mind, the senses, jealousy, pride, hypocrisy are all mans enemies.

1564) God is subtle but he is not malicious. Albert Einstein.

1565) Hate is part of every loving relationship, though not necessarily a prominent
part.

1566) I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

1567) The just shall live by faith.

1568) Confidence is a plant of slow growth. William Pitt.

1569) Virtue does not come from money, but money comes from virtue. Plato.

1570) True arguments seem, then, most useful, not only with a view to knowledge,
but with a view to life also. Aristotle.

1571) Will not knowledge of (the good), then, have a great influence on life? Shall
we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon
what is right? Aristotle.

1572) we must take pains to state (each set of principles) definitely, since
they have a great influence on what follows and many of the questions we
ask are cleared up by it. Aristotle.

1573) We should state not only truth, but also the cause of the error for this
contributes toward producing conviction, since when a reasoned explanation
is given of why the false view appears true, this tends to produce belief in the
true view. Aristotle.

1574) the solution of the difficulty is the discovery of the truth. Aristotle.

1575) it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced But most people do
not do those, but take refuge in theory behaving somewhat like patients
who listen attentively to the doctors, but do none of the things they are
ordered to do. As the latter will not be made well in body by such a course of
treatment, the former will not be made well in the soul by such a course of
philosophy. Aristotle.

1576) If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant, if what is
said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done remains undone.
Confucius.


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1577) Thinking is the operating skill whereby intelligence acts upon experience.
Quotes
1578) An opportunity is a mixture of uncertainty and action. The more we are in
control of the uncertainty the more effective will the action be.

1579) History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
Karl Marx.

1580) He who does not look ahead remains behind. Spanish proverb.

1581) To reach perfection one must adapt to circumstances.

1582) The useful and the beautiful are never separated. Periander.

1583) When the method and discipline of knowledge are added to talent, the result is
usually altogether outstanding. Cicero.

1584) If there is a way to overcome the suffering, then there is no need to worry; if
there is no way to overcome the suffering, then there is no use in worrying.

1585) When youve exhausted all possibilities; remember this: you havent!

1586) Be ye lamps unto yourselves. Do not always follow; for if you follow you
will be left behind. - Bagwan Buddha.

1587) Would that I could discover truth as easily as I could uncover falsehood.
- Cicero.


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